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The Google Voice blog has confirmed that the Google Voice online portal now features SMS group messaging via the online portal. The service supports up to five recipients and will then be extended to the mobile version at a later date.

Novatel’s MiFi 2200 3G/Wi-Fi combo modem/router sold by Verizon and Sprint has been exploited and two major security vulnerabilities have been discovered. The biggest vulnerabilities found are the silent remote activation of GPS functionality despite being turned off by the user, as well as the complete exposure of the Wi-Fi security key and device configuration [...]

After years of scrutiny and criticism from Chinese human rights advocates and governments around the world, Google has announced a new approach to its activities in China on the basis of its main corpoate tenets of unfiltered access to information.

Kicking off TechNews.biz, we wanted to pick up our CES badges early… and actually know where we were going. The CES Press Room doesn’t move from year to year very much, but we wanted to check. So, we hopped on Google and searched for “ces press badge holder pickup” (sans quotes). What did we find [...]

Ebay is down.  When users try to search their query comes back with 0 results.  Ebay has posted the following message to users: “Due to errors in some of our backend systems, members may be seeing different errors in Search. This could be that “We were unable to run the search results you entered. Please [...]

MLB.tv is making a lot of money from users streaming out-of-market games to their PC. Of course, the only drawback to that for users is the fact it can only stream onto your PC.  Today, Roku announced a partnership with MLB.com that will allow users to stream over a 100 games per week. In addition, [...]

Today, Facebook announced the acquisition of popular social networking site, FriendFeed.   FriendFeed is a service that allows users to share links and such online in an effective manner. This acquisition serves two purposes, it addresses a need of continued innovation for Facebook to keep users satisfied and it brings along an experienced team of highly [...]

Google has announced that in an effort to improve the quality of its video websites such as YouTube and potentially Google Video, they intend to purchase video compression technology developer On2 Technologies.  The $106.5 million deal will utilize  On2′s video compression methods in order to boost the quality of its video library and tosses its [...]

Bloomberg Radio has confirmed that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz have issued a joint press release announcing the newly minted joint venture between both companies to compete against Google in search and ad sales. As a condition of the deal Yahoo will be using Microsoft’s Bing search platform and integrating its [...]

AT&T today issued a formal statement, acknowledging the blocking of 4chan. As of early this morning, they have removed the block. The company blamed a computer virus triggering a DDOS attack on the site. This DDOS attack was saturating one of their primary backbones, which routed to 4chan’s hosting facility. AT&T claims the issue had [...]